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TULKARM, WEST BANK, PALESTINE - 2024/07/09: Smoke billows during an Israeli army raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

July 12, 2024 4:04 PM

Israeli forces pull back after Gaza City offensive, leaving dozens of bodies, rescue service says

Israeli forces retreated from some Gaza City districts overnight after a fierce, week-long military offensive, leaving dozens of dead and wrecked homes and roads in the Palestinian enclave's biggest urban area, residents and rescue service said on Friday. The offensive, 10 months into Israel's campaign to eliminate Hamas militants, took place as U.S.-backed mediators sought to finalise a peace deal that would free remaining hostages taken by the militants in their cross-border rampage on Oct. 7...

GAZA CITY, GAZA - FEBRUARY 10: Palestinians look at the damaged car in which 6-year-old Hind Rajab and five members of her family died, whom Israeli forces targeted 12 days ago in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on February 10, 2024. After the Israeli forces withdrew from the region, it was seen that an ambulance going to the region to help the Rajab family, who was shot in the Israeli attack, was also targeted by the Israeli forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said six-year-old girl Hind Rajab, who was trapped in her family car after it came under Israeli army in Gaza City, was found dead after nearly two weeks of uncertainty. The non-profit in a statement late Friday said the bodies of the child, and two of its paramedics, Youssef Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoon, who went out on a mission to rescue the little girl on Jan. 29 had been found. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 11, 2024 5:21 PM

Bodies trapped in Gaza City under Israeli assault as mediators push for truce

Residents of Gaza City were trapped in houses and bodies lay uncollected in the streets under an intense new Israeli assault on Thursday, even as Washington pushed for a peace deal at talks in Egypt and Qatar. Hamas militants say a heavy Israeli assault on Gaza City this week could wreck efforts to finally end the war just as negotiations have entered the home stretch. Home to more than a quarter of Gaza's residents before the war, Gaza City was destroyed during the firs...

July 10, 2024 5:54 PM

Israel presses Gaza offensive hours after deadly airstrike on tent camp

Israeli forces pressed their offensive in north and central Gaza on Wednesday, hours after an airstrike on a tent encampment that Palestinian officials said killed more than two dozen people and as negotiations to end the fighting were set to resume. Leaflets were dropped on Gaza City, this time with a map marking "safe routes" for the evacuation of the whole city, not just certain districts. The Israeli leaflets urge civilians to head south along two routes to the central Gaza Strip. The mili...

SOUTHERN ISRAEL, ISRAEL - JULY 3: Smoke rise over the Gaza Strip after an Israeli bombardment as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on July 3, 2024 in Southern Israel, Israel. Recent press reports have suggested Israel's military leadership wants a ceasefire in the war with Hamas, which has raged since the Oct. 7 attacks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly opposed any truce that would allow Hamas, the militant group that has governed the Gaza Strip, to survive the war. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

July 8, 2024 4:57 PM

Israeli tanks storm Gaza City districts, residents report heavy fire

Israeli forces bombarded Gaza City early on Monday and columns of tanks advanced into the heart of the city from different directions in what residents said was one of the heaviest attacks in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war. The Gaza Civil Emergency Service said it believed dozens of people were killed but emergency teams were unable to reach them because of ongoing offensives in Daraj and Tuffah in the east and Tel Al-Hawa, Sabra and Rimal further west. Residents said nei...

June 25, 2024 3:07 PM

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 24 in Gaza City, say Gaza officials

Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the militant Islamist Hamas group, Gaza health officials and medics said. Israeli tanks also pressed deeper into western areas of Rafah in the south of the enclave overnight, blowing up homes, residents said. Two of the Israeli airstrikes hit two schools in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, medics said. Another strike on a...

SOUTHERN ISRAEL, ISRAEL - MAY 17: An Israeli tank moves along the border with the Gaza Strip as seen from a position from the Israeli side of the border on May 17, 2024 in Sourhern Israel, Israel. Negotiations over a ceasefire deal that would halt the war in Gaza are once again stalled, while Israel appears to be preparing for an expanded ground offensive around Rafah, despite international concern. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

May 28, 2024 5:08 PM

Tanks reach Rafah’s centre as Israel presses assault despite global scrutiny

Israeli tanks reached the centre of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, witnesses said, three weeks into a ground operation in the southern Gaza city that has sparked global condemnation. The tanks were spotted near Al-Awda mosque, a central Rafah landmark. The Israeli military said its forces continued to operate in the Rafah area without commenting on reported advancements into the city centre. Overnight, its forces pounded the city with airstrikes and tank fire, residents said, p...